⏰ Our Worlds-bound middle school Robotics Team is still seeking donors in support of their trip to Dallas in the first week of May! Thanks for supporting STEM at SV!
🍔It was a chilly day at Ernie Pyle for the first stop on our Smashburgers Staff Appreciation Tour, but we are fired up for spring!
🏆GREAT NEWS🏆
Two of our SVMS Robotics Teams competed at the Indiana Robotics Championship at Lucas Oil Stadium on March 25th: The Classy Goats (8th Graders) and The Nerd Herd (6th graders).
The Nerd Herd has earned a spot to compete in the World's Largest Robotics Competition in Dallas, Texas in May. They are our youngest group to ever compete at this level.
They qualified by earning the Create Award! This particular award is only presented to 2 Indiana middle school teams whose robot design incorporates a creative engineering solution to the design challenges of the season's game.
Help us congratulate the team and Coach Maria Sellers for another year of successful competition!
Our SV Staff Spotlight this month features our Kindergarten teachers as they prepare for the upcoming Kindergarten Roundup. For more information, visit the SV website.
https://youtu.be/gDX-bpT8Wsc
Welcoming community input!
🍋Our STEMonade Stand family event was a huge success! The place was packed! Thank you to all the family members who supported our One School One Book project this year featuring the book The Lemonade War.
🍋Our mini-lemonade stand prototype winners were Kyndal Poynter (Gr.K at Central) with the Superintendent's Choice Award and Lyllian Bennett (Gr.3 at Central) with the SVHS Physics Students' Choice Award! All students who submitted entries will receive a participation prize very soon!
🍋For the Lemon Slice drawings, our winners were Natalie Knezevich of Van Duyn and Mia Robinson of Central.
📚Our elementary students enjoyed celebrating Read Across America Day with student readers from the middle school! What a thoughtful literacy family we have at SV! Thank you, Mrs. Joni McLain (SVMS Counselor), for organizing these school visits!
Can you name the Dr. Seuss book titles each emoji below represents?
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🍋THIS JUST IN!!! We are extending the due date for the Superintendent's STEM Challenge to allow families another weekend to design and build! ALL ENTRIES MUST BE IN THE SCHOOLS BY MONDAY, FEB. 27th! 🍋If you have any questions about this optional (no grades attached!) at-home STEM project, email Melanie Beaver, Curriculum Director at [email protected]
🍋THIS JUST IN!!! We are extending the due date for the Superintendent's STEM Challenge to allow families another weekend to design and build! ALL ENTRIES MUST BE IN THE SCHOOLS BY MONDAY, FEB. 27th!
🍋If you have any questions about this optional (no grades attached!) at-home STEM project, email Melanie Beaver, Curriculum Director at [email protected]
Our Staff Spotlight for this month is on Hannah Hoover, Corporation Nurse at South Vermillion Schools. Thank you, Hannah, for all you have done at SV to ensure a safe and healthy school environment for students and staff!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8mhl3JpNx8
Monday's School Board Meeting will be held at SVMS in the LGI Room beginning at 6:30 p.m. On the agenda is the recommendation from the School Facilities Advisory Committee regarding the elementary consolidation plan.
🍋Students in grades K-5 are invited to participate in the Superintendent's (first-ever) STEM Challenge in partnership with our STEMonade Stand Family Night on March 2nd!
🍋If you have any questions about this optional (no grades attached!) at-home STEM project, email Melanie Beaver, Curriculum Director at [email protected].
Reminder to SVCS Community: No school this Friday or next Monday.
Friday is a scheduled school break and Monday is President's Day. Enjoy your 4-day weekend!
Reminder! Every school year, students entering kindergarten, 6th grade, and 12th grade require certain vaccinations and booster shots before entering those specific grade levels. If your 5th grader is already 11 years old, they can go ahead and get their Tdap and MCV4 (meningococcal) vaccines for 6th grade. For high school students over 16 years of age, they can go ahead and get their required MCV4 booster shot in preparation for their senior year. Appointments take time to schedule, so please start making plans now with your doctor, VPCHC Mobile Health Bus, or local health department to get these state-required school vaccinations! If you need more information, please reach out to your school nurse.
🍋📖Our One School One Book project is underway in our 3 elementary schools this month. All students and staff are reading The Lemonade War by Jacqueline Davies. A summary from bookrags.com states, "This fictional novel addresses the complex relationship between brothers and sisters, as well as how arguments can spiral out of control when people quit communicating with each other. In the end, the siblings realize that working together is better than working against each other."
🍋📚Our students are learning the basics of economics, entrepreneurial skills, marketing, competition, and even forgiveness while reading this book at home with their families (or by listening to the chapter recordings via Canvas). Stay tuned for next week, students and families, because Superintendent Chapman provided the recording for chapter 8!
🍋📗Thank you to this year's sponsors: Clinton Optimists Club, Tri Kappa, Crown Hill Dentistry, Local Coordinating Council (LCC) of Vermillion County, ELANCO, and Vermillion County Community Foundation.
🗓K-5 Families: SAVE THE DATE!🗓
Stay tuned for an email so you can RSVP for this special event!
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We have a pretty awesome Counseling Department at South Vermillion! Help us thank them for everything they do for our students and staff!
📖TODAY IS WORLD READ ALOUD DAY!📖
Help us kick off our annual One School One Book project on behalf of all South Vermillion K-5 students and staff by commenting a book title that you remember someone reading aloud to you when you were in elementary school!!!
In the month of February, we are all reading the same book: The Lemonade War by Jacqueline Davies.
The 2023-2024 Academic Calendar was recently approved at the January School Board Meeting and can be accessed from the link below.
https://5il.co/1o5df
South Vermillion Community School will operate on a 2-Hour Delay tomorrow (Tuesday, January 31st).